Day 7 (Team July)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Here is the post to update with any extracts, thoughts, or comments you might have for today.

I'm saying good-bye for a week, leaving you in the most capable hands of elmey until Day 15. Happy writing!

Comments

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

~600 words and a completed first draft of the 2nd npt pinch hit (secret story)
~2100 words on the Firiel story

A conversation about Firiel's role, Firiel and Arvedui (again)
She paused, wondering how to ask her question and bit her lip slightly, but plunged on, "So what will be expected of me?"
"Well, as my mother is dead you will be lady here. For now you are too inexperienced to be regent - however, I will have to teach you as much as I can quickly, for it will be better when you can because then I will not need to spare someone else to do so. You will responsible for the household here, including overseeing supplies to the city, of food and all other good, overseeing the kitchens and everything else."
"Regent?" she echoed shakely. "I could not. I have not been trained to rule."
"Surely you know what is necessary in general?"
"No, I know a little of some things that my brother told me, but not much."
He stared at her. "Who would be regent if your father and brothers went off to fight?"
"According to the law of Gondor they should not all go - one undisputed heir must remain behind and they would be expected to rule, if they were of age. If not, the Steward would be left with the authority."
"But according to the laws of Numenore you could have been a ruling queen if anything happened to your brothers."
Firiel looked at her hands for a moment. "Look, I am sorry, but I have not been trained to rule."
He sat down opposite her and took her hands. "Are you prepared to learn?"
"Yes."
He squeezed her hands gently. "Good. That is the best that we can hope for from here."

[elmey.livejournal.com]

That's certainly a very different responsibility from taking care of the household! Firiel will have to be very strong.

You're really motoring in terms of getting things done though.

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

*nods* She is going to have to learn a lot very quickly to be able to cope

[stevie-carroll.livejournal.com]

Things are really moving along there.

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :)

[saki101.livejournal.com]

Wow! You are accomplishing all sorts of things!

Demanding times ahead for them both, but Arvedui sounds patient. (No one examined different cultural expectations before they settled on this marriage, did they? No exchange of CVs and job descriptions.)

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

He is trying to be... after all he does realise that the cultural shock is harder for Firiel than him as she is in such totally unfamiliar soundings (no, because both kingdoms came from the same roots, and both assume that they are just carrying on the traditions and therefore their expectations are universal... and the only people who might have thought more about it weren't consulted)

[ideealisme.livejournal.com]

Firiel is going to have to step up to the plate. Maybe this new role in her life is what she needs, even if it has an inauspicious start!

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

Thank you! It may well be good for her, if she can cope...